{"id":56751,"date":"2023-06-19T13:00:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T05:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=56751"},"modified":"2023-06-19T13:01:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T05:01:01","slug":"sophos-recognized-as-customers-choice-for-second-consecutive-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2023\/06\/19\/sophos-recognized-as-customers-choice-for-second-consecutive-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophos recognized as Customers\u2019 Choice for second consecutive year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sophos.com\/\">Sophos<\/a>, a global player in innovating and delivering cybersecurity as a service, recently announced it has once again been named a Customers\u2019 Choice in the May 2023 Gartner Voice of the Customer for Network Firewalls report. Sophos is recognized as a Customers\u2019 Choice for the second consecutive year, receiving an overall vendor rating of 4.7 out of 5 across 462 verified customer reviews, as of March 31, 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sophos is the only vendor named a Customers\u2019 Choice for both network firewalls and endpoint protection platforms (EPP). In the new report, Sophos is the only Customers\u2019 Choice for Network Firewalls Public Sector, Gov\u2019t and Edu, receiving further Customers\u2019 Choice distinctions across Midsize Enterprise; Manufacturing; Finance; North America; Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA); and Asia\/Pacific market segments.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis customer recognition is, in our opinion, validation that Sophos Firewall leads the industry in providing industry-best protection and performance, easy management, and a fully integrated ecosystem of complimentary solutions and services,\u201d said Raja Patel, senior vice president of products at Sophos. \u201cIn today\u2019s economy, organizations are looking for improved value from their cybersecurity investments and they\u2019re prioritizing solutions that enable them to simplify operations and scale growth, and Sophos Firewall does exactly that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What reviewers say about Sophos Firewall:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cSophos Firewall has been a life changer,\u201d said an IT infrastructure manager in the manufacturing industry<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It \u201cinstantly identifies the latest ransomware and unknown threats before they get into your network,\u201d said a system administrator in the education industry<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cSophos Firewall not only detects threats but also stops high-risk apps and malware,\u201d said an IT manager in the manufacturing industry<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cThe product starts to give its maximum ROI from day one,\u201d said a network security engineer in the services industry<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cGreat firewall with advanced security technologies. Excellent firewall for the money,\u201d said a network engineer in the services industry<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cThe GUI is up to date and laid out in a manner that is easy to maneuver\u2026 we found everything very user friendly compared to others,\u201d said an IT manager in the government industry<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cSD-WAN enhancements are a very welcome feature in the latest Sophos OS. (The) reporting and alert engine has prevented attacks proactively,\u201d said a senior IT administrator in the IT services industry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Sophos Firewall delivers unrivaled performance and advanced protection against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sophos.com\/en-us\/content\/state-of-ransomware\">ransomware<\/a> and other cyberthreats. Recently introduced XGS 7500 and 8500 models meet the needs of the largest enterprises and campus deployments with industry-best modular connectivity; highly scalable SD-WAN features; trusted traffic and application acceleration; high performance Transport Layer Security (TLS) inspection; enterprise-grade, high-availability and redundancy capabilities; and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sophos Firewall is part of the Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem, which integrates Sophos\u2019 entire portfolio of products, services and Sophos X-Ops threat intelligence for faster and more contextual and synchronized detection, protection and response. It is easily managed in the cloud-native Sophos Central platform alongside other solutions, where users can oversee installations, respond to alerts, and track licenses and upcoming renewal dates via a single, intuitive interface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this Gartner report, vendors with 20 or more eligible published reviews during the specified 18-month submission period are included. Reviews from vendor partners or end users of companies with less than $50M in revenue are excluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophos is recognized as a Customers\u2019 Choice for the second consecutive year, receiving an overall vendor rating of 4.7 out of 5 across 462 verified customer reviews, as of March 31, 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":46775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[275,206,96,2727,1656],"class_list":["post-56751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-awards","tag-sophos","tag-technology","tag-technology-adaption","tag-technology-investment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}